Three Years Late, Israelis Finally Hear the Truth About Trump

[rpannier]

When Donald Trump decided to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal in May 2018, Israel’s then-prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, turned the decision into a political celebration. Israeli media outlets received detailed briefings on how a daring Mossad operation to steal Iran’s “nuclear archive” from a secure location in the Islamic Republic was the final straw that convinced Trump to break the international agreement.

That sense of pride was missing last week, when former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen, the man who commanded that operation, spoke at the Haaretz-UCLA conference on Israeli national security. Cohen was asked about the fact that ever since Trump got out of the deal, Iran has significantly increased its uranium enrichment. “That’s true,” he replied.

Another speaker at the same conference was former Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, who strongly opposed the nuclear deal at the time of its signing, when he was still in office. Yet in an interview with Haaretz analyst Anshel Pfeffer, Ya’alon said that as bad as that deal was, Trump’s decision to withdraw from it – with Netanyahu’s encouragement – was even worse. He called it “the main mistake of the last decade” in Iran policy.

Two days later, former IDF Chief of Staff Lt. General (ret.) Gadi Eisenkot, brought a similar message to the Security and Policy conference in the Reichman University in Herzliya. The American withdrawal from the deal, said the man who commanded the Israeli military when it happened, was a net negative for Israel: It released Iran from all restrictions, and brought its nuclear program to a much more advanced position.

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-netanyahu-mossad-years-late-israel-hear-truth-trump-iran-1.10416718

[brush]

1. Yet another trump foreign policy screw up. What others will come out?

We already know of the many domestic policy blunders. The man was a blustering, walking, loud mouth disaster by the minute.

[monkeyman1]

2. It's mind boggling how stupid this clown -"TFG" is !

[WHITT]

3. Easily

the second largest foreign policy blunder in modern history committed by Donnie and NuttyYahoo, only exceeded by the Bushies illegal and disastrous invasion of Iraq.

Morons leading the morons.

[Throck]

4. Nobody in Isreal watches CNN?

How about informed relatives in the US, don't they talk?

Oy!

[Alexander Of Assyria]

5. Trump torpedoed the perfectly fine America/UN/International nuclear accord, at the urging

and deception of Bibi. All with little notice and the disapproval of The Rest of The World. We all know that. Not debatable. Look it up.

Now it’s Obama partner and same international community that has to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.

Nice to see an article that speaks to the history and not purposely ignore it.

And what did this foolishness of the decade for Israel accomplish?

“Two days later, former IDF Chief of Staff Lt. General (ret.) Gadi Eisenkot, brought a similar message to the Security and Policy conference in the Reichman University in Herzliya. The American withdrawal from the deal, said the man who commanded the Israeli military when it happened, was a net negative for Israel: It released Iran from all restrictions, and brought its nuclear program to a much more advanced position.”

But mission accomplished for Bibi, got his corrupt ass re-elected by a nose hair then.

[Martin Eden]

6. Gee, who could have predicted Iran would ramp up

.. it's nuclear program after the collapse of the agreement?

So much for Israeli "intelligence."

[modrepub]

7. War Is Expensive

both emotionally and financially. At some point, I hope, Israel and its neighbors will realize that.

Working against that, of course, is that fear and aggression do wonders for you politically.